Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Kevin Smith

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Kevin Spacey

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life and forget your age.

Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Emeril Lagasse

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Edward Steichen

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry James

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Helena Bonham Carter

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Khalil Gibran

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Norman Rockwell

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Orson Welles

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

O. J. Simpson

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mary Antin

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.